A Supercell Caught inTexas by Mike Olbinski

Find more of my work here: http://www.mikeolbinski.com Also follow me on Instragram for storm photos and whatnot - http://instagram.com/mikeolbinski Still print of this storm can be found here if interested: http://gallery.mikeolbinski.com/stormchasing/h6015e87e#h6015e87e It took four years but I finally got it. A rotating supercell. And not just a rotating supercell, but one with insane structure and amazing movement. I've been visiting the Central Plains since 2010. Usually it's just for a day, or three, or two...but it took until the fourth attempt to actually find what I'd been looking for. And boy did we find it. No, there was no tornado. But that's not really what I was after. I'm from Arizona. We don't get structure like this. Clouds that rotate and look like alien spacecraft hanging over the Earth. We chased this storm from the wrong side (north) and it took us going through hail and torrential rains to burst through on the south side. And when we did...this monster cloud was hanging over Texas and rotating like something out of Close Encounters. The timelapse was shot on a Canon 5D Mark II with a Rokinon 14mm 2.8 lens. It's broken up into four parts. The first section ends because it started pouring on us. We should have been further south when we started filming but you never know how long these things will last, so I started the timelapse as soon as I could. One thing to note early on in the first part is the way the rain is coming down on the right and actually being sucked back into the rotation. Amazing. A few miles south is where part two picks up. And I didn't realize how fast it was moving south, so part three is just me panning the camera to the left. During that third part you can see dust along the cornfield being pulled into the storm as well...part of the strong inflow. The final part is when the storm had started dying out and we shot lightning as it passed over us. Between the third and fourth portions we drove through Booker, Texas where tornado sirens were going off...it was creepy as all heck. And intense. I hope you enjoy this. Once thing I've learned about timelapsing is that I always wish it would be longer or wouldn't end. I wish I had been south and been able to record this storm come at me for 45 minutes. But I love it the way it is. I wasn't ever certain I'd see structure like this even though it's been such a goal of mine. But we did it. And by we, I mean myself and my buddy Andy Hoeland, who knows his crap and got us into position so we could chase this storm. Without him along I don't know if I get this timelapse.

Arizona photographer Mike Olbinski got this amazing video of the formation of a gigantic rotating supercell near Booker, Texas on June 3.

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Lightning Played in Super Slo-Mo

Incredible footage of a lightning strike slowed down. One strike of lightning (1 second) turns into 3 minutes of footage. See what few people ever see! Lightning physicist Vladislav Mazur and meteorologist Tom Warner watch a video of a lightning strike that has been slowed down so 1 second of footage is played back as 6 minutes of film.

Lightning happens in under a sec, but when shot at over 11,000 frames per sec, we can see all of the creeping details as it flashes through in over 3 minutes. Stunning.​

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Cloud Terrace in Hokkaido

雲海テラス　無料体験版　雲海の美しさや感動が伝わる・・・ 雲海テラスへのゴンドラと雲海テラスからのゴンドラから見る雲海の中の様子も体験できますよ・・・ゴンドラが雲霧の中から湧き出るように出現する様子や雲霧の中に消失する様子なども鑑賞できます・・・雲海を満喫して運開といきましょう・・・ ...

On the island of Hokkaido, the Unkai Terrace is a scenic spot that because of the natural hot springs in the area and the differences in temperature a sea of clouds cover the mountainous region.

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SKYE Weather+Photo

SKYE Weather + Photo brings the weather to life with elegant reports and beautiful photos shared by users like you. The app not only offers real-time conditions, as well as hourly and seven-day forecasts, but it also makes photos of weather around the world visible with the swipe of a finger. Upload and share your own weather photos, and scroll through other users' shots of your favorite places. With this easy-to-use app, you’ll get the clearest possible picture of the weather in the places you care about. Features: --Rich and immersive forecasts --Beautiful background images showing current conditions --Hourly and seven-day forecasts --Real-time crowd-sourced weather reporting --Real-time weather photos from around the world --Place current weather data on your photos with beautiful stencils --Share forecasts with friends via Facebook, Twitter, email or SMS --Save and organize your places for forecasts --See the weather in your friends' top places --Horizontal swipe for place details --Vertical swipe for quick switch

Besides doing this everyday, I have a day job as a user experience designer for BermanBraun here in Santa Monica. 

The cycle for producing an iOS app can vary in length quite a bit. When I first sketched on the screens for SKYE WEATHER+PHOTO in early 2012, I wasn't sure where the exploration would take me. 

The app is live now (iTunes link) and I am excited to hear what you think.

There are two main sections of the app: forecast and photos.

The forecast section includes current, hourly and 7-day weather information for places around the world. 

The photo section lets you discover photos (with weather information stenciled on) in any of the locations around the world. And, if you like, you can add weather stencils to any of your own photos. 

Your weather photos tell the story of your experience, the way it felt to be there at that moment. You can share your photos out to your social networks, save them to your camera roll, and document the weather for those places. 

Here are some of my favorite photos I've taken with the app:

3 - Hurricane Sandy NYC Timelapses

Uploaded by SMvideoChan on 2012-10-31.

5 of the best.

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Timelapse of Hurricane Sandy over Downtown Manhattan Taken from Brooklyn Heights

Please be sure to watch in HD! Time lapse of the city as the power went for half of Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy. Major Power Outage is at 00:08 Time lapse filmed on Monday 10/29/12. I made this into a bumper for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon so you might have seen it on Tuesdays episode!

On October 29th 2012, Hurricane Sandy made landfall near New York, NY. Starting at 5pm EST, these images were captured overlooking 42nd street and 10th avenue in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA. Over a period of 5h30m, this video was produced as a time lapse taking one image every two seconds. The camera was a Samsung Galaxy Nexus running Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2. The video is 5m19s in length and there is no audio. Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/glunardi

I captured this by writing a script to grab a copy of the latest image from the webcam NYTimes have pointed out over NYC. Runs from about Noon on the 29th Of October, till about half nine am on the 30th October, 2012.

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